International studio . EAGLE hOR THE BODECKER , BEKI BY OTTO RICIITER Studio-Talk. frame of mind. Herr Koeppel has exhibited invarious German towns and met with much success. T. R. relii;f for music pavilion at wiesbadenby oito riciitbk comparatively small number of painters who areentirely self-taught—self-taught, that is, as regardsinstruction in technical methods, for of courseevery true artist is in a sense self-taught. In thecase of this young painter, who is as yet not far inhis twenties, it was nature herself that beckonedhim to the pursuit of art. Until five years ago he-was


International studio . EAGLE hOR THE BODECKER , BEKI BY OTTO RICIITER Studio-Talk. frame of mind. Herr Koeppel has exhibited invarious German towns and met with much success. T. R. relii;f for music pavilion at wiesbadenby oito riciitbk comparatively small number of painters who areentirely self-taught—self-taught, that is, as regardsinstruction in technical methods, for of courseevery true artist is in a sense self-taught. In thecase of this young painter, who is as yet not far inhis twenties, it was nature herself that beckonedhim to the pursuit of art. Until five years ago he-was following a commercial calling, but a sojournin the mountains revealed to him the beauties ofnature, and led bim to relinquish a business careerand become a painter. His home for the pastfour years has been the romantic forest regionbetween Bohemia and Bavaria, whence he gathersa rich harvest of motifs for his paintings. Hislandscapes have the quality denoted by the wordStimmung, for which no exact equivalent isavailable in English, but which signifies ap-proximately the communication


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